Crime/Public Safety

A 20-year-old Clayton, Washington, man who died Saturday in a head-on crash that also killed the driver in the other car near Liberty Lake has been identified.

WALLACE – What’s left of the post-Christmas day tragedy in Wallace is visible outside the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office lobby: crime scene tape that barricaded the sheriff’s office after a shooting there, now frayed and collapsing onto the cold sidewalk.

Some unnamed recipients will soon receive the transplanted liver and kidneys from a double killing suspect from Spokane. 

Downtown Spokane’s Abraham Lincoln statue has been vandalized again.

A head-on collision Saturday afternoon on state Route 290 north of Liberty Lake resulted in the deaths of two people, according to a Washington State Patrol news release.

It was a normal post-Christmas day in Wallace until gunshots rang out.

A 38-year-old man who repeatedly raped and molested a family member in Spokane was sentenced to 34 years to life in prison.

After remaining mum for months about a new contract for the regional immigrant detention center in Tacoma, the Trump administration has posted a notice that appears to offer a first look at the facility’s future operations.

A gunman on Friday shot and injured an officer and two other people near the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office before police shot and killed him, according to Shoshone County Sheriff William Eddy.

A traffic light pole near downtown Spokane was broken in half after a truck crashed into it Thursday afternoon.

The Bellingham man accused of shooting two National Guard members, one fatally, in Washington, D.C. in November may face the death penalty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Tuesday. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was arrested Nov. 27 in connection to a double-shooting the day prior. He was charged with multiple felonies, including first-degree murder, in a D.C. ...

Two Spokane teenagers were sentenced to a state rehabilitation program for punching and shooting a man in the stomach after an argument over a vape pen spilled outside an apartment, according to the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

A man was arrested Monday afternoon in Northwest Spokane under suspicion of arson, possession of a dangerous weapon and making false statements to police.

Whitman County law enforcement found possible human remains in a remote area outside of Colfax early Monday morning.

A former gang member on felony probation for firearms violations was arrested after police found an active pipe bomb at the 52-year-old man’s Coeur d’Alene home.

An 82-year-old Deary, Idaho, man died after he was thrown from the SUV he was driving Friday morning near Deary, according to Idaho State Police.

The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office on Friday identified two men who died while in custody Monday inside the Spokane County Jail.

A Pullman man, his girlfriend and his father were convicted of international parental kidnapping after the couple fled to Mexico with the Pullman man’s toddler and the father tried to help his son avoid arrest.

Fifteen suspects wanted on suspicion of robbery, assault and sex offenses were arrested in Spokane County over a two-day operation this week.